Oskar Rassau

Oskar Rassau (born July 29, 1843 in Schulenburg , Amt Calenberg , † December 6, 1912 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor and medalist .

Samaritan fountain, designed by Oskar Rassau, architect Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel, produced by Adolf Schwarz

Life

Rassau was initially enrolled at the Polytechnic School in Hanover for bossing and building history from 1858 to 1864 before studying at the Dresden Art Academy from 1864 to 1868 . His first public work was a statue of the pastor prim, unveiled in Hameln. Schlegel in 1873. In the years 1875 to 1884 he mainly produced church works. Later he turned to the production of still images. He was also entrusted with the restoration of the golden gate in Freiberg and other public works.

He had been an honorary member of the Society for Fine Arts and Patriotic Antiquities in Emden since at least 1892 and in that year had given the collection of this society a portrait statue of Emperor Joseph II of Austria, which he had modeled . In Tetschen this was, with a prize-winning than 2.60 meters high still image in ore executed positioned. In 1898 he made a relief medallion from cast bronze on which the civil engineer Claus Koepcke and in 1902 one depicting his wife Friederike (née Lüdecking). Rassau was secretary of the Dresden Art Cooperative .

A niece of Rassau was the artist Emy Rogge .

Work (selection)

• Wroclaw
  • 1882, sandstone figures at the town hall of Breslau , near the southern central bay, the entrance of the Schweidnitzer cellar , z. B. the council clerk (model: Gustav Dickhuth , honorary citizen of Breslau), to the right of the bay window
• Chemnitz
  • Figures of Moses and John the Baptist for the castle church
  • Altar relief with the motif of Holy Communion in St. Nikolai Church
• Dresden
  • Bust of Ludwig Richter in the city museum
  • Design of the Schiller-Körner monument in Loschwitz , architect Martin Pietzsch , execution of sculptures by Adolf Schwarz
  • Last Supper relief in the Markuskirche in Pieschen
  • Altar relief in the Holy Spirit Church in Blasewitz
  • sculptural jewelry in the Johanneskirche
  • Four evangelists in the Kreuzkirche Dresden
  • 1901, model of a half-length portrait of Christ in the tower hall of the Martin Luther Church , executed by Anton and Adolf Schwarz
  • Figures evening and morning on the south facade of the art academy building
  • 1903, Lukaskirche: sculptural decorations in the chancel, e.g. B. Apostles Peter, Paul, John, James
• Hainichen
  • 1911, draft Samariterbrunnen , architect Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel , the sculpting work was carried out by Adolf Schwarz
• Hamelin
  • Schlaeger memorial
• Hanover
  • 1884, Louis Stromeyer monument , marble statue executed by Franz Schwarz
  • Monument to Karl Karmarsch , with Heinrich Köhler
• Leipzig
  • Group of figures "Christ with an old man sinking down on a walking stick" above the portal of St. Mary's Church
• Osteel
  • Fabricius monument , holding Urania with the sunspot tablet in hand. The client was the Naturforschende Gesellschaft zu Emden (1895).
• Rostock
  • Statues of Duke Christian Ludwig II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Grand Duke Georg of Mecklenburg-Strelitz at the Ständehaus
    (two other statues by the sculptor Ludwig Brunow )
• Tetschen
  • Monument to Emperor Josef II
• Zwickau
  • 1876, draft of the altar relief "Jesus heals the gouty" in the Lukas Church in Zwickau / Planitz. The sculptural execution in French limestone was carried out by Franz Schwarz .

gallery

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  Lukaskirche Zwickau altar relief, 1876

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  Louis Stromeyer, 1884

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  Council clerk at the Wroclaw City Hall, 1892

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  Half-length portrait of Christ exalted, 1901

literature

• Oscar Rassau . In: Yearbook of the Society for Fine Arts and Patriotic Antiquities in Emden . W. Haynel, Emden 1892, p. 148–149, 151 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Willy O. Dressler (Ed.): Dressler's Art Yearbook - a reference book for German fine and applied arts. Dressler, Rostock 1907, p. 161 ( digishelf.de ).
• Rassau, Oskar . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934, p. 25 .

Web links

Commons : Oskar Rassau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oscar Rassau . In: Yearbook of the Society for Fine Arts and Patriotic Antiquities in Emden . W. Haynel, Emden 1892, p. 149 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
2. ↑ I. Honorary Members . In: Yearbook of the Society for Fine Arts and Patriotic Antiquities in Emden . tape 15 , 1st and 2nd issue. W. Haynel, Emden 1905, p. 182 and 570 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ). I. Honorary Members . In: Yearbook of the Society for Fine Arts and Patriotic Antiquities in Emden . tape
    16 , 1st and 2nd issue. W. Haynel, Emden 1907, p. 347 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ Increase in the collection . In: Yearbook of the Society for Fine Arts and Patriotic Antiquities in Emden . Verlag von W. Haynel, Emden 1892, p. 151 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
4. ^ Claudia Elbert: Networks - Claus Köpcke 1831-1911; Biography of an engineer . KIT Scientific Publishing, Karlsruhe 2011, p. 184–185 and 189 , note 3 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
5. ↑ Festschrift on the occasion of the 100 anniversary of the parish fair in 1987, published by the parish council of the Martin-Luther-Gemeinde Dresden-Neustadt, pp. 8 and 14.
6. ↑ watch-wiki.org from May 1, 2019.
7. ↑ New Saxon Church Gallery - Euphoria Dresden I from 1906, author Flade, Paul, p. 570.
8. ^ The Lukaskirche in Dresden, Author: Oberkonsistorialrat Pastor D. Kühn, 1904, Dresden, p. 22.
9. ↑ Gellerstadt Bote , No. 18 of September 22, 2018, p. 3.
10. ↑ Construction documents in the archive of the Trinity Church Hainichen, PfAHC 5121 / I and PfAHC 5121 / II.
11. ↑ Original photo from October 31, 1909 in the building documents in the archive of the Trinity Church in Hainichen, PfAHC 5121 / I.
12. ^ Dresdner Nachrichten . August 22, 1884, p. 3 ( slub-dresden.de ).
13. ↑ Sid Auffarth , Wolfgang Pietsch: The University of Hanover: their buildings, their gardens, their planning history. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-935590-90-7 , p. 116.
14. ↑ Gabriel Püschmann: The Lukas church at Planitz - the story of a church from 1872 to 2006 . 3. Edition. Zschiesche, Wilkau-Haßlau 2006, p. 15, 28 .
15. ↑ Klotz, Hermann: New Saxon Church Gallery - The Ephorie Zwickau . Leipzig, S. 189 ( digital.slub-dresden.de ).